Li, Yuping D.
Lamano, Jonathan B.
Lamano, Jason B.
Quaggin-Smith, Jessica
Veliceasa, Dorina
Kaur, Gurvinder
Biyashev, Dauren
Unruh, Dusten
Bloch, Orin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9810-6011
Funding for this research was provided by:
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Medical Student Research Fellow)
National Cancer Institute (CA206413, CA164714)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS101884, NS078055)
Article History
Received: 22 February 2019
Accepted: 24 August 2019
First Online: 5 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine (STU00204920).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study for the use of their blood and tumor specimen for research. Consent was not required for collection of patient characteristics as information was de-identified. Consent was not required for TCGA data collection as the TCGA is a de-identified, public database.